'History will not look kindly on this,' said one critic.
Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia voted "present" and Sens.of Pennsylvania, Dianne Feinstein of California, and Tom Carper of Delaware were not present for the vote.
President Joe Biden said after the bill was passed by the D.C. Council that he opposed Republican efforts to block the measure, but"The victims of these political fights have been millions of people. More will now suffer." Since the passage of the RCCA, Republicans have used the law to portray the nation's capital as crime-ridden and Democrats as weak on criminal justice, despite the fact that the updated criminal code increased sentences for gun crimes and sexual assault and created a new felony offense for shooting a firearm in public.
The issue of carjacking took center stage as the new code reduced sentences for the crime. The law would have applied a 24-year maximum sentence for carjacking, reduced from 40 years—the same amount that's applied to second-degree murder,Civil rights lawyer Udi Ofer demanded to know how a criminal code that still includes
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